Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so surprised to see Ken , so relieved , that I rushed over and gave him a kiss . |
| 2 | It was after I had been deep in thought for a long time , stooped forward , that I looked up and saw Adrar , like the celestial city , its towers and palms floating on the mirage of a lake . |
| 3 | I was so exhausted that I lay down and went to sleep . |
| 4 | She looked so utterly pathetic that I bent down and comforted her silently , stroking her hair , kissing her face . |
| 5 | ‘ You had n't arrived when first I came , ’ he went on , ‘ so I went out and had a coffee , and when I came back your assistant told me you were with Naylor . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ As I told you , I spent some time writing letters and when I 'd finished I thought it would be pleasant to get some fresh air so I went out and posted them — in the box outside the main post office — ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , she said he needs some new pyjamas — his old ones are so worn through they 're hardly decent — so I went out and bought him a pair . ’ |
| 8 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 9 | They were all pretty well oiled by then so I went back and sat with the other children . |
| 10 | I toyed with the idea of walking the station to meet him , but , having a sore throat and an impending cold , had gone out to get cough sweets from the ‘ Paki shop ’ just before it closes at 10pm and , coming up the street , the heavens opened and a mass of snow began to fall , so I came in and stayed in , so that 's freshly home made onion soup was ready as he came up the stairs . |
| 11 | I felt a sharp stab in my head so I reached up and found a piece of hay stuck in my hair , it must have come from the farm . |
| 12 | I thought it might help if I took the flowers off him , so I reached out and lifted them carefully , holding the stem ends away from me . |
| 13 | He looked all in and was almost asleep , so I got up and patted his shoulder very gently . |
| 14 | But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand . |
| 15 | ‘ I came to tell you something , but no one was here so I got in and took a look . ’ |
| 16 | The manufacturer does not provide a recommended retail price , so I shopped around and found that the going rate for a 55 US gallon model was around £89 . |
| 17 | The sun was shining hotly , so I stripped off and spread my garments out to dry , contemplating my wrack . |
| 18 | Anyway I realized I 'd have missed you at the Club , so I turned round and set off back . |
| 19 | There was no butter around so I jumped down and went to the living room . |
| 20 | I tried to pull the canopy back but it was impossible against the dive so I flattened out and throttled back . |
| 21 | By this time I was frothing at the mouth like a rabid dog in walking boots with the effort of running in the heat , so I gave in and resumed normal speed . |
| 22 | Suddenly , there was a commotion at the door and I looked up and saw the skinny preacher walk in . |
| 23 | And I looked up and said it 's here ! |
| 24 | I used to sleep in the same bed as my mother and father because of the shortage of space , but one morning I woke up in another room and I looked out and saw the undertaker standing at the top of the stairs . |
| 25 | And I looked in and thought I wonder if that 's Clayton in there or not . |
| 26 | Nick and I got up and went outside , where groups of friends were gathered . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , but that means — if that desk light was on and I got up and started to accelerate towards it , the light goes blue . |
| 28 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 29 | I did , yes , erm , when erm , we thought our prisoner was finished the co-ordinators wrote to me and said would I be interested , would our group be interested in erm , writing to Yugoslavia 's still , because with the Civil War going on there 's lots of cases coming up , for example there was a whole hospital full of patients that were taken prisoner I do n't know if they were actually physically removed or whether they were held in the hospital without access to medical treatment for something like ten days , and erm , Saria did say she 'd help me last time and I wrote back and said yes , two of us could write once a month , well they 're taken that very liberally and , and , got two or three things from the already and erm , if anyone else is interested in writing an odd letter say once a month to Yugoslavia maybe they could erm , let me know later on . . |
| 30 | Well , Gav and I met up as planned and had an ‘ interesting ’ drive to the match . |